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In accordance with Article 49, paragraph 2, of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on digital services (DSA), the Italian legislator has designed the Italian Communications Regulatory (Agcom) as Digital Services Coordinator (Article 15 of the law decree of 15 September 2023, n. 123 entitled "Urgent measures to combat youth hardship, educational poverty and juvenile crime, as well as for the safety of minors in the digital environment"). Agcom has to guarantee the effectiveness of the rights and the obligations established by the...

New measures to protect minors in the digital sphere have been introduced by Italian legislative decree No. 123 of 15 September 2023, entitled "Urgent measures to combat youth hardship, educational poverty and juvenile crime, as well as for the safety of minors in the digital sphere". In particular, in order to guarantee a safer digital environment for minors, Article 13 provides for new measures aimed at the manufacturers of electronic communication devices (smartphones, computers, tablets and, where compatible, video game consoles, and other possible connected objects such as televisions,...

On 21 July, AGCOM launched with resolution no. 178/23/CNS a public consultation on the measures to be adopted to ensure influencers' compliance with the Consolidated Law on audiovisual media services. AGCOM's goal of extending the scope of the legal and regulatory framework to these subjects stems from the observation that the activities carried out by influencers are comparable to the provision of audiovisual media services. The activities involved are those carried out by subjects denominated in current language with the term of "influencer", but also "vlogger",...

The Digital Services Act Implementation Bill was published on 14 July 2023. It provides for the national implementation in the Netherlands of the EU’s landmark Digital Services Act (DSA), which entered into force in late 2022 (see, for example, IRIS 2023-3:1/18 and IRIS 2023-5:1/2). Crucially, the Bill designates the Autoriteit Consument & Markt (Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets – ACM) as the national Digital Services Coordinator in the Netherlands under the DSA. In addition, the bill designates the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (Dutch Data Protection Authority –...

Under the new law no. 2023-566 of 7 July 2023 “establishing digital majority and combating online hate”, children under 15 will need their parents’ consent to join a social network. The law also enshrines in French legislation (Article 1 IV of the Loi pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique (Law on confidence in the digital economy – LCEN) of 21 June 2004) the definition of a social networking service as “a platform that enables end users to connect and communicate with each other, share content and discover other users and content across...